A 72-year-old driver and a 10-year-old child were left with what the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office calls "incapacitating injuries" after the child was struck by the driver and the driver was then assaulted by people in the neighborhood.

WASHINGTON — A 72-year-old woman was assaulted by people in a St. Mary’s County, Maryland, neighborhood, after her SUV struck a child who ran into the street, according to the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office.

It happened on Wednesday around 3 p.m. St. Mary’s County sheriff’s deputies arrived at the 46000 block of Yorktown Road in Lexington Park for a report of a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian.

They found a 2003 GMC Envoy in the roadway. The driver was 72-year-old Linda Glaser.

She was traveling south on Yorktown Road and an ice cream truck was stopped on the opposite side of the road. As Glaser passed the truck, a 10-year-old child ran into the roadway from behind the ice cream truck, the sheriff’s office said.